Sarah O'Brien
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everyone and you
Really interesting points, Kate and Mandy. I wonder if there is potential for textual analysis and audience studies to work in tandem here? I'm thinking especially of your references Mandy to The Wilderness Downtown and Brachet's line about &quo ... -
Thanks for the insightful comments everyone!
And sorry to be so late in responding to them; the site interruption kinda threw me off. You’re all articulating thoughts that I struggled to fit into this short post. In particular, Aaron, I think I was trying to telegraph the compartmentalizing effect y ... -
Are foodies experts?
Thanks Eric for sharing this piece with us. I hadn't heard of the Burger Foundation and now I’m itching to show these clips to students; the sheer weirdness factor of the burger burials can’t but generate discussion, even of the confused sort. I’m al ... -
When process becomes proficiency
This is a fantastic post Pete and it makes me remember/rethink a number of processes in relation to the show's whole. (I was afraid to come over here and read it before I had a chance to watch "To'hajiilee"--have never felt so possessi ... -
Condensing space
Thanks Pete and Maria! Pete, I wonder how much overlap there is between what I'm calling experimentation and you're calling process? Seems like a lot, probably! I felt imprecise when I wrote that the hyper time-lapse sequences condense time and ... -
Has anyone hacked a zoo cam?
Your analogy between the baby monitor and pet/zoo cams is really terrific, as it highlights so many species-specific distinctions between how we look at (spy on) others. I recently used a baby monitor for the first time while babysitting my 2-year-old nie ... -
Good question!
Huh! That is a question I did not even consider--such is the power of the "news" and all its trappings, I went in accepting that the bear was running away or escaping, and thus somehow complicit in/aware of his or her "newsworthiness." ... -
Thanks for sharing this
Thanks for sharing this terrific collection with us Lauren. Do you know if there's a parallel history of dog postcards (or similar ephemera)? I'm fascinated by the ways dogs and cats are played against each other on the Internet, and I wonder if ... -
Ways of resistance?
Sorry to by jumping in late to this discussion. Your post and comments really resonate with my feelings about zoos and aquariums, Randy. I'm wondering if you can say more (or if others want to weigh in) about how we square our unease with these place ... -
Re: Against the Real
relating to the real
My apologies for what feels guiltily like a belated response—it’s been a split second in the print publication continuum that I’ve been inhabiting with the film, and yet an eternity in the Internet time of your response. (Surely this is among the many int ...